Hotel Pays Dearly for Pork Chop Shoes
(No user rating) (from Anon - 19 July 2002)How much does a pair of pork chop shoes cost?
How much does a pair of pork chop shoes cost?
If you're the licensee of the Jannali Inn in Sydney's south the price tag is a slippery U.S. $34,817.
That's how much a Sydney court awarded in damages to a man injured when he slipped on the inn's greasy floor after a drinker tied pork chops to his feet to satisfy a requirement to wear shoes to get served, local media reported on Thursday.
Troy Bowron, 25, broke his arm, requiring two plates and 12 pins to fix, when he fell on the greasy floor in November 1997. Bowron sued the inn and the drinker for pain and suffering and loss of income.
Ross Lucock, who had been drinking at the inn and was described as "a bit wobbly" by patrons, was eventually refused service by bar staff for not wearing shoes, the New South Wales District Court heard this week.
Lucock returned a short time later wearing a pair of pork chops, which he had won in a raffle earlier, tied to his feet. As the pork chop shoes disintegrated the hotel floor became slippery and Bowron fell after playing pool.
District court judge Anthony Puckeridge ruled on Thursday that the hotel had breached its duty of care by failing to clean up the greasy trail left by Lucock, Australian Associated Press said. Lucock was cleared of any responsibility for the accident.
